Dispatch

The Finnish Farmer Who Killed Over 500 Soviets — Without a Scope

Simo Häyhä, the sniper the Soviets called the White Death, killed over five hundred men in roughly a hundred days, and almost none of them ever saw him. No scope. No muzzle flash they could trace. Just soldiers dropping in the snow at the Kollaa River while the treeline stayed perfectly still. A Finnish farmer turned the Winter War's deadliest weapon into a ghost the Red Army could not find, hunting one man with counter-snipers and artillery while their invasion stalled. How did he vanish into the white, and what finally found him?